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User Fee for Estate Tax Closing Letter; Correction

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identifier: "/us/fr/2021-22780"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "User Fee for Estate Tax Closing Letter; Correction"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "2021-22780"
section_name: "User Fee for Estate Tax Closing Letter; Correction"
positive_law: false
currency: "2021-10-19"
last_updated: "2021-10-19"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Treasury Department"
document_number: "2021-22780"
document_type: "rule"
publication_date: "2021-10-19"
agencies:
  - "Treasury Department"
  - "Internal Revenue Service"
cfr_references:
  - "26 CFR Part 300"
rin: "1545-BP75"
fr_citation: "86 FR 57753"
fr_volume: 86
docket_ids:
  - "TD 9957"
effective_date: "2021-10-28"
fr_action: "Final regulations; correction."
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#  User Fee for Estate Tax Closing Letter; Correction

**AGENCY:**

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury.

**ACTION:**

Final regulations; correction.

**SUMMARY:**

This document contains a correction to Treasury Decision 9957, which was published in the *Federal Register* on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. Treasury Decision 9957 establishes a new user fee of $67 for persons requesting the issuance of IRS Letter 627, also referred to as an estate tax closing letter.

**DATES:**

The correction is effective on October 28, 2021, and applicable as of September 28, 2021.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Juli Ro Kim at (202) 317-6859 (not a toll-free number).

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

**Background**

The final regulations (TD 9957) that are the subject of this correction are issued under section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code.

**Need for Correction**

As published the final regulations (TD 9957) contain an error that needs to be corrected.

**Correction of Publication**

Accordingly, the final regulations (TD 9957) that are the subject of FR Doc. 2021-21029, published on September 28, 2021 (86 FR 53539), are corrected as follows:

On page 53539, in the second column, footnote 1 is corrected to read:

<sup>1</sup> For an overview of the procedure applicable to a request for an estate tax closing letter before October 28, 2021, see part D of the Background and Explanation of Provisions of the proposed regulations.

Oluwafunmilayo A. Taylor,

Chief, Publications and Regulations Branch, Legal Processing Division, Associate Chief Counsel, (Procedure and Administration).